Well, we heard all of that in the launch marketing back in 82.
Binary is associated with science fiction, high tech stuff and computers. The word ‘digital’ is associated with CD. Whether you’re talking CDs, downloads, streaming or whatever label you care to use. There’s a perception about digital that confuses us a tad. Reply Paul Rigby 14th December 2020 at 11:17 am The new transport and dac really do give me more detail while also bringing a fresh, still swinging-grooving listening experience. I just bought it recently and I am still in the process of rediscovering my old CDs with e big grin from ear to ear. It also offers upsampling options, thus allowing the dac for more headroom, if dsp or filtering computation is done further down the line.Īt ~800,- € it is excellent value for the money, offering a very sturdy built quality. Error handling is also done in memory, before and not on-the-fly while passing the signal to a dac. The digital bits are stored in memory and from there are transported to the dac with a new, precisely reclocked signal, the clocking is thus not depending on the readout speed. The NuPrime is a single speed drive, the disc spins in the same speed regardless wether the laser is reading near the center or at the outer rim.
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NuPrime CDT-8 transport, connected to a RME ADI-2 Pro dac (further down the line: Rotel RB-850 power amp and Canton ct100 4way floorstanders, both from the nineties). Reply Henning Grote 13th December 2020 at 10:45 am Either way for £70 more I’m astonished that Leak cd transport seems to be a step up on the already excellent Audiolab transport and I’d be interested to hear what you think? I’ve asked my very un audiophile wife for her opinion and she loves the Nintendo Super NES look of it but she also has said she finds the music richer and fuller, so it’s not just ‘confirmation bias’ on my part it seems. On my favourite 2 albums of the year (Tim Bowness/Peter Chilvers – Modern Ruins and Lunatic Soul – Through Shaded Woods) I’m hearing just more of everything but not in a typically cd way (ie detail ‘thrown at you’). I can actually forget that I’m listening to a cd. Now I can’t do an A/B comparison for obvious reasons, also since the Audiolab unexpectedly died on me maybe it wasn’t working as well as it should’ve been (though I was very impressed) also it may have something to do with the interface with my Roksan K3 DAC but having said all that I find the Leak CDT to be more akin to listening to my modded Linn LP12 than a cd. The Leak just sounds more ‘analogue’, smoother highs, more detailed mids and seemingly even better bass extension. I was wrong! Don’t misunderstand me but I’m not saying the Audiolab was missing much indeed I considered it to be the equal at least of my Cyrus CDTXT2 transport but compared to the Leak amazingly it is to my ears left standing. My expectation when it arrived was that it would sound virtually identical to the (already impressive) Audiolab. It also looked nice and ‘retro’ (my wife approved) so for the extra £70 I thought “why not?” after all it is supposed to have the same cd mechanism as the Audiolab. I considered buying another but I saw that the Leak CDT had just been released and it had gotten a good review in Hifi World and it had the useful extra facility of playing files from USB. I did have the Audiolab CDT6000 but mysteriously it broke down after several months of use, I sent it back but due to the problems of repair during the lockdown etc I ended up with my £379.00 refunded in full.
I think Paul you should check out the Leak CDT transport ASAP. Reply Mark Haynes 12th December 2020 at 2:55 pm
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